The First Year Learning Goals are designed to encourage students, faculty, and staff to dynamically claim our own education as we practice ever more effective forms of learning. Emerging from UW Bothell's central values of transformative learning, engaged scholarship, and the fostering of an inclusive culture, the goals are shaped to create the context for understanding the many traditions that converge here at the university, to support the creation of knowledge, and to shape new social practices. In the context of progressively more challenging questions, problems, projects, and standards for performance, we will focus together on exploring these goals, which culminate in the spring Discovery Core in which students create a portfolio, engage in research, and participate in experiential learning.

Inclusive Practices

focus on how best to deepen the richness of human experience- with its differences of race, gender, ability, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, and class- by developing capacities to

identify our own and others' ways of knowing- verbal, visual, kinetic, auditory- and make use of those different capacities.